ATM running Windows XP doesn't mean its less secure
Than e.g. OpenBSD? It sure does.
I think, as has previously been said, the difficulty in getting physical access to the business end of the hardware is infinitely harder than actually exploiting the equipment. The operating system is the least of your worries when you are trying to work out how to get to the machine itself, thus rendering the choice of operating system pretty much pointless, when you have things to worry about such as availability of software, cost based on insurance against this sort of thing, etc etc
Lithium is a very old drug used for Manic Depression. What it actually does is takes the top and bottom off your moods. So someone with manic depression (which is actually characterised by extremes of mood, not just 'really depressed') will attempt to take those extremes out, hopefully rendering them 'normal'. It is, however, extreme, and most people who take it aren't happy with it, because they don't feel themselves.
I would imagine, if you had a constant stream of Lithium administered to you throughout your life, you wouldn't know what your were like without it. I wonder if these people are generally less 'extreme' than the majority of people. I am no psychologist/psychiatrist (IANAP if there is such a phrase), but I wonder if you could experimentally determine this, shown in more ways than just a lack of suicide.
I have 7 RC installed on a very very very underpowered Lenovo laptop, the kind of thing that ran Ubuntu with a struggle. 7 however, is very fluid, even the fancypants aero effects, with the transparencies work.
I think Microsoft just may be onto the next XP here.
H have an MX Revolution, which is obviously bigger, but I love it. I have never had a problem with the Logitech software in either Windows or OS X, even in the Windows 7 beta or RC. It's not too bad with linux either. But I have it set up so when I scroll the mouse wheel at a sufficient speed it just goes to the freewheel mode, leaving the wheel click action for the standard middle click.
That is very true, I was being somewhat facetious when I commented there. But if the camera is limited to when there is no traffic, when the lights seem to change `unfairly', I honestly can't see the problem.
A4 isn't meant to be equal to the golden ratio. It is meant to be 1/Root2, or Root2, depending on your outlook on life. Designed such that if you stick two of them together, you get the next size up. Or on cutting one in half, get the next size down; again, depending on your outlook on life.
Fluid dynamics basically says that at very close distances to a surface, it doesn't matter how fast the fluid is flowing, the wind speed at the surface is very low, and approaches zero. So maybe he made it!
All this is going to do is drive up piracy. More expensive computer games won't stop people getting them, it will just make more people decide they dont want to pay £50 or whatever they will charge for them, and download it instead.
I myself have used vlite to rip out things I considered useless in Vista, including IE. This caused me an entire world of pain, however. As the parent said, Help CHM files rely on IE libraries, and so does anything else, even steam if I remember correctly. The truth is, that IE is so hopelessly embedded into Windows, it will probably take a lot of work to extract it, and even more to convince 3rd party vendors to not rely on its presence.
I don't see the inherent problem with using a click track. If we take a band like Dream Theater, where both John Petrucci (guitar) and Jordan Rudess (Keyboards) play ridiculous solos, generally 'dueling' with each other. This would be impossible if the rhythm section was speeding up and slowing down. I would much rather hear crisp, perfectly synchronised solos, with that hint of mechanisation, than muddy, out of time solos that finish at different times.
However, this does not mean I think click tracks are always good. They are only required for an act such as Dream Theater, because quite often the band are pushing their technical skills as far as they can go, and I believe they need that extra help. In the case of a band playing something at a somewhat gentle 60 - 80 bpm, there shouldn't really be any excuse.
Saying that, I used to play trombone in a classical orchestra, and the conductor was vital in all pieces of music. Whether he is as vital in a 5 piece band as a 100 piece orchestra, however, is up for debate.
I am probably going to get shot down here for even suggesting such a thing, but a good friend of mine has an eeePC, and, after trying various linux distros, and XP, actually found that Windows 7 worked impressively well. He had to use Vlite, or whatever the Windows 7 equivalent is, to strip it back so it would fit on the highspeed SSD chip, as opposed to the larger drive, but apart from that, its fantastic.
I have had a play with it myself, everything works, and there are no compatibility issues, it seems to be rock solid. And comparable in speed to XP. Certainly its ability to go to sleep and wake up is very snappy indeed.
So yea, don't necessary get hung up on Linux, give Windows 7 a go!
I am, my apologies. The end of a long day of physics. That gives a light-distance of 46 mm, or around 5cm. So I got the right final value, just dodgy working.
What I think is really amazing about this is that at a clock speed of 6.5 GHz, each cycle takes around 15 nanoseconds (15 * 10^-9 seconds) to complete. In this time frame light can only travel around 5 cm. Electrical signals travel close to this speed themselves, so the limit of clock speeds is being reached, since the chip itself is on this same order of distance. It is around the point where one side of the chip will not be able to communicate with the other side in a single clock cycle.
How much throughput that could equal is going to depend on the way that the system is set up, how much noise there is on a given frequency, dopler shift and what kind of spectrum management is used, but no matter how you cut it it won't be much. Assuming only one to one overlapping of cells (which is very generous) and very low noise you might get a total of 4 megabits combined up and downstream to be shared by all users in a given area.
You mention doppler shift, despite the fact these are electromagnetic waves, and you have to be in something moving very very fast to observe this effect. Anything land based won't get near those speeds
It's not surprising. Be There are now a subsidiary of O2, so anything O2 do, Be There pretty much have to do as well. I started using Be There when they were small and independent, now though, they seem to be just the same as every other damn ISP out there.
It seems that the whole censorship thing has finally started to happen. It always was a matter of time before something happened. It is all very V For Vendetta...
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ATM running Windows XP doesn't mean its less secure
Than e.g. OpenBSD? It sure does.
I think, as has previously been said, the difficulty in getting physical access to the business end of the hardware is infinitely harder than actually exploiting the equipment. The operating system is the least of your worries when you are trying to work out how to get to the machine itself, thus rendering the choice of operating system pretty much pointless, when you have things to worry about such as availability of software, cost based on insurance against this sort of thing, etc etc
I have to agree. Listen to someone from Bavaria speaking, it almost has a lilt to it.
Once again Microsoft's methods are dubious, but you are still getting a very good operating system gratis for a year.
Lithium is a very old drug used for Manic Depression. What it actually does is takes the top and bottom off your moods. So someone with manic depression (which is actually characterised by extremes of mood, not just 'really depressed') will attempt to take those extremes out, hopefully rendering them 'normal'. It is, however, extreme, and most people who take it aren't happy with it, because they don't feel themselves.
I would imagine, if you had a constant stream of Lithium administered to you throughout your life, you wouldn't know what your were like without it. I wonder if these people are generally less 'extreme' than the majority of people. I am no psychologist/psychiatrist (IANAP if there is such a phrase), but I wonder if you could experimentally determine this, shown in more ways than just a lack of suicide.
Damn straight.
I have 7 RC installed on a very very very underpowered Lenovo laptop, the kind of thing that ran Ubuntu with a struggle. 7 however, is very fluid, even the fancypants aero effects, with the transparencies work.
I think Microsoft just may be onto the next XP here.
H have an MX Revolution, which is obviously bigger, but I love it. I have never had a problem with the Logitech software in either Windows or OS X, even in the Windows 7 beta or RC. It's not too bad with linux either. But I have it set up so when I scroll the mouse wheel at a sufficient speed it just goes to the freewheel mode, leaving the wheel click action for the standard middle click.
Really is a fantastic mouse.
That is very true, I was being somewhat facetious when I commented there. But if the camera is limited to when there is no traffic, when the lights seem to change `unfairly', I honestly can't see the problem.
It is still against the rules of the road to enter an intersection if you aren't positive that you can't get out again
A4 isn't meant to be equal to the golden ratio. It is meant to be 1/Root2, or Root2, depending on your outlook on life. Designed such that if you stick two of them together, you get the next size up. Or on cutting one in half, get the next size down; again, depending on your outlook on life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size
Which is even more the case if you virtualise an operating system.
Fluid dynamics basically says that at very close distances to a surface, it doesn't matter how fast the fluid is flowing, the wind speed at the surface is very low, and approaches zero. So maybe he made it!
All this is going to do is drive up piracy. More expensive computer games won't stop people getting them, it will just make more people decide they dont want to pay £50 or whatever they will charge for them, and download it instead.
Truly fantastic idea...
Don't you mean, there are only 10 types of women?
And where does this money come from? Certainly not from a sense of entrepreneurship.
I myself have used vlite to rip out things I considered useless in Vista, including IE. This caused me an entire world of pain, however. As the parent said, Help CHM files rely on IE libraries, and so does anything else, even steam if I remember correctly. The truth is, that IE is so hopelessly embedded into Windows, it will probably take a lot of work to extract it, and even more to convince 3rd party vendors to not rely on its presence.
I don't see the inherent problem with using a click track. If we take a band like Dream Theater, where both John Petrucci (guitar) and Jordan Rudess (Keyboards) play ridiculous solos, generally 'dueling' with each other. This would be impossible if the rhythm section was speeding up and slowing down. I would much rather hear crisp, perfectly synchronised solos, with that hint of mechanisation, than muddy, out of time solos that finish at different times.
However, this does not mean I think click tracks are always good. They are only required for an act such as Dream Theater, because quite often the band are pushing their technical skills as far as they can go, and I believe they need that extra help. In the case of a band playing something at a somewhat gentle 60 - 80 bpm, there shouldn't really be any excuse.
Saying that, I used to play trombone in a classical orchestra, and the conductor was vital in all pieces of music. Whether he is as vital in a 5 piece band as a 100 piece orchestra, however, is up for debate.
I am probably going to get shot down here for even suggesting such a thing, but a good friend of mine has an eeePC, and, after trying various linux distros, and XP, actually found that Windows 7 worked impressively well. He had to use Vlite, or whatever the Windows 7 equivalent is, to strip it back so it would fit on the highspeed SSD chip, as opposed to the larger drive, but apart from that, its fantastic. I have had a play with it myself, everything works, and there are no compatibility issues, it seems to be rock solid. And comparable in speed to XP. Certainly its ability to go to sleep and wake up is very snappy indeed. So yea, don't necessary get hung up on Linux, give Windows 7 a go!
It is effectively 2 years after the initial release. Vista came out in what, 2006?
I am, my apologies. The end of a long day of physics. That gives a light-distance of 46 mm, or around 5cm. So I got the right final value, just dodgy working.
What I think is really amazing about this is that at a clock speed of 6.5 GHz, each cycle takes around 15 nanoseconds (15 * 10^-9 seconds) to complete. In this time frame light can only travel around 5 cm. Electrical signals travel close to this speed themselves, so the limit of clock speeds is being reached, since the chip itself is on this same order of distance. It is around the point where one side of the chip will not be able to communicate with the other side in a single clock cycle.
How much throughput that could equal is going to depend on the way that the system is set up, how much noise there is on a given frequency, dopler shift and what kind of spectrum management is used, but no matter how you cut it it won't be much. Assuming only one to one overlapping of cells (which is very generous) and very low noise you might get a total of 4 megabits combined up and downstream to be shared by all users in a given area.
You mention doppler shift, despite the fact these are electromagnetic waves, and you have to be in something moving very very fast to observe this effect. Anything land based won't get near those speeds
It's not surprising. Be There are now a subsidiary of O2, so anything O2 do, Be There pretty much have to do as well. I started using Be There when they were small and independent, now though, they seem to be just the same as every other damn ISP out there. It seems that the whole censorship thing has finally started to happen. It always was a matter of time before something happened. It is all very V For Vendetta...